Android making https requests with SSL from GoDaddy – No peer certificate error
Another hair pulling session that all ended well.
Task:
Make a secure call to a server using a httprequest and get the httpresponse for further processing.
Android http request and response:
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet req = new HttpGet("https://www.example.com");
HttpResponse res = client.execute(req);
Error:
javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: No peer certificate
Problem:
The issue is that cert from GoDaddy was installed but not installed completely. An Intermediate cert is required for the server/domain in order to have a fully installed cert.
Reference:
Apache SSL IfDefine – Error
Just encountered a problem that was painful to deal with while configuring SSL on apache for linux. The httpd.conf had a tag,
$ service httpd -D SSL -k start
Also, I found that restart does not always take new changes to my conf files.
$ service httpd -D SSL -k restart
Instead, use the stop then the start command to be sure.
$service httpd -D SSL -k stop
$service httpd -D SSL -k start
That was a source of much pain while working on this particular server.